Prof. Yatish Turakhia

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at the University of California San Diego (UCSD) with a joint affiliation with the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE), the Department of Bioengineering, and the Bioinformatics and Systems Biology (BISB) graduate program at UCSD. My lab is also affiliated with the Center of Machine-Integrated Computing and Security (MICS), the Center of Microbiome Innovation (CMI), and the Institute for Genomic Medicine (IGM) at UCSD.

Previously, I was a postdoctoral scholar at the Genomics Institute at UC Santa Cruz. I obtained my Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering in 2019 from Stanford University, where I was coadvised by Prof. Bill Dally and Prof. Gill Bejerano. I obtained my bachelor’s and master’s degree in Electrical Engineering (with a minor in Computer Science) from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay in 2014.

I lead the Turakhia Lab at UCSD and our team is constantly looking for exceptionally talented and highly motivated students and postdoctoral researchers to join us. Please visit the apply page for more information.

PhD Students

Sumit Walia

Ph.D., ECE, UCSD, 2021-

B.Tech, EE, IIT Gandhinagar, 2020

HPCA 2024 Best Paper Finalist

Research Interests: Hardware Accelerators, Computational Genomics, Phylogenetics

Email: swalia [at] ucsd [dot] edu

Anshu Gupta

Ph.D., CSE, UCSD, 2022-

B.Tech, ETC, IIEST Shibpur, 2019

ASPLOS Travel Grant

Research Interests: Hardware Accelerators, Evolutionary Genomics

Email: ang037 [at] ucsd [dot] edu

Pranav Gangwar

Ph.D., ECE, UCSD, 2021-

B.Tech, ECE, DTU, 2018

Research Interests: Hardware Accelerators, Computational Genomics, Deep Learning

Email: pgangwar [at] ucsd [dot] edu

Yu-Hsiang Tseng

Ph.D., ECE, UCSD, 2023-

B.S., EE. NTU, 2022

J. Yang Scholarship Program

ISMB/ECCB 2025 Conference Fellowship

Research Interests: Hardware Accelerators, Parallel Computing

Email: y3tseng [at] ucsd [dot] edu

Wen-Chieh Lo

Ph.D., ECE, UCSD, 2025-

B.S., EE. NTU, 2024

Research Interests: Hardware Acceleration, Parallel Computing, Computational Genomics

Email: w4lo [at] ucsd [dot] edu

Masters Students

Livia Chandra

M.S., ECE, UCSD, 2025-

B.S., CSE, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2025

Research Interests: Parallel Computing, Hardware Acceleration, High-performance Computing

Email: lchandra [at] ucsd [dot] edu

Undergraduate Students

Kyle Smith

B.S., BENG, UCSD, 2019-

ASPLOS Travel Grant

Honorable Mention, CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award

Research Interests: Hardware/software co-design, High-performance computing, Computational genomics

Email: kws001 [at] ucsd [dot] edu

Anya Wang

B.S., ECE, UCSD, 2022-

Research Interests:High-Performance Computing, Parallel Computing

Email:v8wang [at] ucsd [dot] edu

Joachim Galil

B.S., ECE, UCSD, 2022-

Research Interests: Hardware Accelerators, Parallel Computing, Computational Genomics

Email: jgalil [at] ucsd [dot] edu

Sean Liu

B.S., BIOSCI, UCSD, 2024-

Research Interests: Computational genomics

B.S., ECE, UCSD

M.S., CSE, UCSD

(2022-2024)

MS Thesis

Cheng Ye

M.S., ECE, UCSD

(2021-2023)

ECE Best Undergradute Research Award 2022

HPCA 2024 Best Paper Finalist

Arkid Kalyan Bera

M.S., ECE, UCSD

(2022-2023)

HPCA 2024 Best Paper Finalist

Dhruvi Lodhavia

M.S., ECE, UCSD

(2022-2024)

HPCA 2024 Best Paper Finalist

Debabrata Chaudhury

M.S., ECE, UCSD

(2022-2024)

Tian Liu

B.S., BENG, UCSD

(2019-2023)

Girish Krishnan

B.S., ECE, UCSD

(2020-2023)

Xiyuan(Carolyn) Zhang

B.S., ECE, UCSD

(2020-2023)

Carol Bao

M.Eng., Financial Engineering, Cornell University, 2023-

(Undergraduate summer and spring intern, 2022)

Xuan Wang

Ph.D., ECE, UCSD, 2023-

(Undergraduate summer and spring intern, 2022)

Xiaoxiao Zou

M.S., Computer Graphics and Game Technology, UPenn, 2023-

(Undergraduate summer and spring intern, 2022)

Vidhi Kulkarni

(High School Summer Intern, 2022)

Ronnie Volman

(High School Summer Intern, 2022)

Devika Torvi

First Employment - Bioinformatics Software Developer, Regeneron

(Undergraduate summer and spring intern, 2021)

Zihao Kong

First Employment - Senior Software Engineer, SambaNova Systems

(Undergraduate summer and spring intern, 2021)

Shoh Mollenkamp

M.S., ECE, UCSD, 2022-

(Undergraduate summer and spring intern, 2021)